The past is our definition.We may strive, with good reason, to escape it,or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escapeit only by adding something better to it.- Wendell Berry

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.- Nathaniel Hawthorne

Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressionsmy eye took in at heightened moments.I painted only memories, adding nothing,no details that I did not see.Hence the simplicity of the paintings,their emptiness.- Edvard Munch

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows bythe very condition of humanity,and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life,we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravatingthe common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.- Joseph Addison

From the point of the view of the nation's power,it was obvious that while we were fighting the Sino-Japanese war,every effort was to be made to avoid adding to ourenemies and opening additional fronts.- Hideki Tojo

A child is beset with long traditions.And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere addingof years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -it is already so far.- Alice Meynell

A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together,adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final,it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.- David Herbert Lawrence

I've got a collection of songs that I've had,I keep adding to and they're all great American composers.I wanted to showcase American composers and I've donethat on a lot of my records and played things by Americancomposers that I really respect.- Charlie Haden

What we are effectively doing, I say this to the youngpeople of America whom my colleagues represent,is leaving our children and grandchildren the tab for fighting a war,letting them pay for the lion's share of it by simplyadding it to the national debt.- John Spratt

After adding trillions to the debt on big-governmentpolicies most Americans didn't ask for and which we couldn't afford,Democratic leaders say they need more money,which they intend to take from small business,even though small businesses create the majority of new jobs.- Mitch McConnell

My stuff was more of a folk coffeehouse thing,with more acoustic guitar, just me doing a single,and then adding on instruments and voices,with emphasis on lyrics and singing and light kind of acoustic jazz.- Dan Hicks

I think it's his perception of knowing how to make a record build,keeping the integrity of the song in the music andreally adding a lot of musical elements to complimentmy voice and to compliment the song.- Deborah Cox

On the justice of the cause of Prince Edouard,adding insurances of greatest sincerity to help itand support it and give him on all occasions of themarks of the same feelings as I have for the King his father.- Henry Benedict Stuart

Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world.Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak.Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor,and your picture begins to lighten up.- Allen Klein

We must carefully consider card security solutions,such as adding photographs or machine-readable electronic strips,so to prevent further breaches of individual privacythat could result from changes to the design of Social Security Cards.- Ron Lewis

The cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it.The cost also includes the addition of an obstacle to future expansion.The trick is to pick the features that don't fight each other.- John Carmack

I may find something that looks interesting and thengo on to alter the recipe by adding spices,things of my own.I also look for time-saving recipes,dishes that can be prepared ahead and stored.- Paul Lynde

I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuelto the flames of hatred and passion which,if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whateveris left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe.- Eamon de Valera

But I definitely see us playing a major role in St.Louis in the years to come.We already provide service to 95 percent of the markets St.Louis travelers visit the most.And we're adding capacity in some of the most important markets.- Gerard Arpey

The historical experience of socialist countries hassadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do awaywith alienation but rather increases it,adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.- Pope John Paul II

I thought it was possible that O.J.could have done something.It crossed my mind.I was thinking about the events of everything and going,Why did I hear that? I was going, No,it can't be, and just all that stuff was adding up.- Kato Kaelin

It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business,as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with,adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil.I use as little oil as I can possibly help,and that's my method.- Edward Hopper

I think that practising the law, particularly litigation,and particularly in Glasgow, has always been difficultenough without adding to it by having problems withprofessional colleagues or former colleagues.- Len G. Murray

There is already a mountain of evidence that SaddamHussein is gathering weapons for the purpose of using them.And adding additional information is like adding a foot to Mount Everest.- Ari Fleischer